Adjustable shelf



arch 11 R. B. CHAPMAN ADJUSTABLE SHELF Filed Dec. 29 1922 Patented Mar. 11, 1924.

' UNITED STATES RICHARD B.

CHAPMAN. OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BEVERLY C. STEPHENS, 01'' LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

ADJUSTABLE SHELF.

Application filed December 29, 1922. Serial No. 609,671.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. CHAPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Santa Barbara, in the county of Santa Bara ham and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Shelves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automobiles and more particularly to receptacles for the convenient carrying and supporting of various articles and impedimenta.

It is an object of the invention to provide means adapted to be arranged in ,a normally to concealed position in front of the usual instrument board and behind theusual dashboard of a motor vehicle body. Another object is to provide a receptacle which may be readily withdrawn from a concealed posiso tion into a convenient position for access, and where it will be arranged in exposed position in front of the driver and ad acent to the inner face of the instrument board.

Other objects and advantages will be made 26 manifest in the following specification of an embodiment of the invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of the body of an automobile, the near side so of which is broken away.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the attachment. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the attachment.

The invention is shown as adapted to a 86 conventional form of automobile body having a dash-board 2 under the hood H and back of the dash-board is an instrument board 3. The spacing of the dash-board and the instrument board 3 provides a consider- 69 able storage space not ordinarily utilized, and my present invention includes, in this form, a swinging element or shelf 5 which may be connected by a spring hinge 6 at one end to the inner face of the dashboard e5 2. The swinging shelf is thus normally swung upwardly by its spring hinge and is of such length that its rear end can swing up against the back of the instrument board 3. The shelf 5 may be-of any length and width and u on it is slidably arranged a suitable num er of receptacles or receivers. In the present case a receiver, in the form of a covered box 7, is slidingly mounted on the shelf'like member 5. Any suitable form of sliding construction may be employed and is here shown as consistin of a pair of parallel strips 8 extending. a ong side edges of the swinging shelf. 5. The side strips 8 are cross connected underneath the shelf 5 by connectingbars 9 and are cross connected by a top plate 10 forming a substantial and practical and at the same time light carrier, whereby the receptacle or box 7 may be shifted from a concealed position in front of the instrument board to an accessible and exposed position on the inner face of the instrument board in front of the driver of the automobile.

To provide for ready adjustment and mounting of the device upon vehicles of various dimensions and forms of construction, the rear end of the swinging element or shelf 5 is shown as slotted at 5 to receive clamp screws 12 which may be screwed into a leaf or base part 15 connected to the hinge 6.

From the above it will be seen that I haveprovided an extremely simple, practicable, inexpensive, light and readily adjustable receptacle which may be quickly moved to a concealed position in front of an instrument board or withdrawn to an exposed position at the inner face of the instrument board.

Further embodiments, modifications and changes may be resorted to within the spirit of the invention as here claimed.

What is claimed is:

1. In combination with structural elements of an automobile including a dash board and an instrument board mounted behind the upper part of the dash board and spaced therefrom, a bracket secured to the dash board, a shelf-like element pivoted to the bracket, a spring for holding the shelflike element upwardly against the bottom of the instrument board, and a receptacle slidingly mounted upon the element so as to be moved forwardly and swung upwardly in front of the instrument board and so as 100 to be moved downwardly and backwardly and swung upwardly behind the instrument board.

2. In combination with structural elements of an automobile including a dash 105 board and an instrument board, the instrument board being some distance behind the upper part of the dash board, a receptacle adjusta ly and yieldably mounted upon the dash board and adapted to be moved from 110 measee' in front of the instrument board to the rear is ada ted to be depressed to permit the reof the instrument board. ceptac e to be shifted from a concealed posi- 10 3. A carrying receptacle for attachment tion on one side of the instrument board to to automobiles comprising a shelf-like elean exposed accessible position at the inner 5 ment having a sprin hinge for attachment front of the instrument board.

to the dash-board 0 an automobile, and a In testimony whereof I have signed my slidably mounted receptacle on said shelfname to this s ecification.

like element, whereby the shelf-like element R CHARD B. CHAPMAN. 

